I listened to some wonderful Matthew Ebel ("Drive Away") and Sunspot ("The Breach") on some newly found (to me) podcasts two days ago. Great stuff. The Intelligent Design trial is now over, but the verdict won't be out for another month or so.

I found some nice open source, cross-platform DVD playing software yesterday, named VLC Media Player from VideoLAN. Works great, and it's free!

The Sony rootkit disaster took another nasty turn yesterday when it was discovered that their "patch" actually can potentially crash your system, and also that the DRM software is actually spyware (communicating back to Sony's servers without your approval). Furthermore, it's actually now preventing CD sales and therefore hurting the artists.